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I didn't even know that the old one was still available, so I've been forced to use the new one. And despite all of the usage, I still hate it. Do they not focus test these sort of things?

Of course they did, on the same people that Slashspot tested Beta on.

I have a permanent redirect for Google maps, just go to Google Maps Classic. Of course now that they're discontinuing it, the utility of the redirect will be limited (sigh). Now it'll be a toss-up between which sucks less, new Google Maps or Apple Maps.

(ObAppleMaps joke: A man using Apple Maps walks into a bar. Or a church. Or a cinema. He's not quite sure.

No one knows if you made 30 or 500 edits. Or if twenty previous tests were flops. (To do it properly, you should have informed someone before doing the test.)

And then you chose which pages and which facts to edit. (With a clear interest in these changes going unnoticed.)

No one knows how selective you're being in these posts which feed your business's interests.

There is nothing reliable, scientific, or objective about your tests.

I see now that you are trolling, unworthy of reply. But, I'll at least say that I did inform the public before doing the test. I don't know how adding "seven carcasses of [[Welsh Corgi]] dogs that have been sacrificed with a [[khanda (sword)|khanda]] sword heated to at least 400 degrees Fahrenheit" to an article reflects a "clear interest in going unnoticed". It sounds like you're afraid to look at my documentation. I never promised that my experiment was scientific, but it was systematic, and the results are reliable, because they are simply "the results".

https://docs.google.com/spread...

You sound a lot like a number of gravely underemployed 20-somethings living with their parents, whom I've encountered on Wikipedia. I get the great sense that you are jealous of the appeal, the orderliness, and the publicity of my experiment. Sorry, but that problem is on you to solve.

Over the years I wrote a bunch of applications that generate KML files to be loaded in Google Earth and [if they weren't too big] in Google Maps. The old Google maps made this really easy because you could just put the KML file's URL in the search field and it would load it. The new version makes sharing these a lot harder because you can't just share a URL, you now have to go through importing into My Maps or setting up additional custom displays using the Javascript API.

If anyone knows an easier way to give people a link with which to display render a KML file as an overlay, I'd love to hear it.

This is my point. There are beautiful 45 degree maps of many, many places (like where I live) that don't have 3D maps. As far as I'm concerned this is a regression that I dislike.

45 degree maps have been available at my location since 2012. I'm not holding out for 3D maps at my location yet any time soon.

https://www.google.com/maps/pl...

You know what? I appear to be uninformed or behind the times on both scores.

(1) apparently there's a way to export MyPlaces maps in KML format from old Maps and then import them into new Maps. I haven't tested it yet, but the Google Maps Help Forum group reports that it does exist.

(2) new Google Maps has both a line drawing tool (for custom route display) and a distance tool (for measuring distances over a single distance or a custom route).

I'll make the switch.

I guess I just really think the 45 degree maps look better, and especially since you can actually view what you are looking at from all 4 sides which results in different 45 degree images of the same location when you rotate the old maps.

When I rotate a tilted map in the new maps nothing happens except a rotation of the image which is just wrong from that tilted view.

I found this which is a list of all the 45 degree locations:
https://www.google.com/maps/d/...

But sadly the only way to access the imagery is in the old google maps which is going to be turned off "soon". That's my whole concern heh.

To return to the old version: 1. Go to maps.google.com 2. Click on the ? icon in the lower right corner 3. Click "return to classic Google Maps" But there doesn't seem to be a way to make it permanent.

There used to be a "remember this" option after that, which seems to be gone now.

Another option is to bookmark the direct link:

https://maps.google.com/maps?o...

https://maps.google.com/maps?output=classic

I'll be sad when that no longer works :-(

Actually, the new Image was zoomed in full there. The old image still had 2 more closer zoom levels.

Here is the comparison at full zoom:

Old:
http://i.imgur.com/RbyDNj3.jpg

New:
http://i.imgur.com/gg3ZeN0.jpg

Just check out the difference for yourself. Check out any area in say a 50 mile radius of Milwaukee, WI for example on the new Google maps vs the old:

Link to old:
https://maps.google.com/maps?o...

Compare the closest 3 zoom levels of the old google maps to the new maps especially.

To return to the old version:

1. Go to maps.google.com
2. Click on the ? icon in the lower right corner
3. Click "return to classic Google Maps"

But there doesn't seem to be a way to make it permanent.

The 'new' Maps is pretty widely disliked. Google's product forums are littered with threads begging them to not implement this change A couple examples:

Thread 1
and
Thread 2

The 'new' Maps is pretty widely disliked. Google's product forums are littered with threads begging them to not implement this change A couple examples:

Thread 1
and
Thread 2

That wasn't even the full zoom level though.

Here is comparison of full zoom level.

Old:
http://i.imgur.com/RbyDNj3.jpg

New:
http://i.imgur.com/gg3ZeN0.jpg

Just see for yourself in your browser.

Take a look at any part of the map within say a 50 mile radius of Milwaukee, WI for example. Notice the difference in the 3 closest zoom levels of the Old maps compared to the new.

Old maps link:
https://maps.google.com/maps?o...

Currently you can use classic with this URL:

https://www.google.com/maps?ou...

Since like, no one linked it or mentioned it yet.

The old version of Google Maps works for the majority of users. The new version of Google Maps has quirky bugs for lots of users who haven't bought a laptop/tablet this month, such as the entire map appearing upside down and/or backwards depending on your hardware. Google is (ab)using OpenGL tweaks that aren't universal by a long shot. So, if you're one of the millions of folks with a graphics card that Google decided not to support anymore, good luck and have fun. Kinda like their support of millions of Android phones - nil, zero, no upgrade for you! Go pay for tomorrow's bleeding edge hardware or be left in the dust, this seems to be Google's new motto.

Attention Google, you and your employees might be doing great financially, the rest of us can't necessarily afford to buy or be given the latest greatest hardware. How about some legacy support.

Well, lord knows I would never stoop to disseminating false information through Wikipedia.

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Here you go. Some of these guys have six-figure camera rigs riding on a Segway. There are practical reasons for that in some situations, even with very large budget productions. Not every physical space lends itself to traditional full-sized cranes and dollies on rails, etc.

https://www.google.com/search?...

A very simple Google search for swarm and robot will pop a horde of papers. Frankly, I've seen this research go back more than fifteen years. I'm too lazy to find the oldest source, but here's a bunch of different swarm papers:

http://link.springer.com/artic...

http://link.springer.com/chapt...

http://link.springer.com/artic...

https://dl.acm.org/citation.cf...

Sometimes you can find things under the term cooperative control. There's entire books written about these algorithms:

https://books.google.com/books...

So, yes, the Navy's system is cool. It is not revolutionary. It's an application of existing methodology.

Something like this probably:
https://www.google.com/search?...

I'm sure your problems are real to you, I'm gonna leave this here:
http://whitewhine.com/
https://www.google.com/search?...

I've recommended BOTH in security guides for years https://www.google.com/search?... (9/10 of the top results are those guides written by "yours truly")...

APK

P.S.=> The less services you run, in *ANY* event, means the more cpu cycles, RAM, + other forms of I/O you have available for the processes you DO want to run too, so "double-bonus"... apk

And if you think that it's wrong of EU to investigate an American company, think about it this way:

Google is a European company.
Actually, many European companies.
http://www.google.com/about/company/facts/locations/

Google's European headquarter is in Ireland... well, actually, it's an Irish company that is headquartered in Bermuda.
Google USA licenses its IP to Google Ireland Holdings (headquartered in Bermuda).
In turn, Google Ireland Holdings sub-licenses the IP to its wholly owned subsidiary in the Netherlands: Google Netherlands Holdings B.V.
Then Google Netherlands Holdings B.V. sub-sub-licenses the IP to another Google Ireland Holdings subsidiary: Google Ireland Ltd.

To coordinate all this, Google has a network of corporations in individual EU States, usually just "sales support" staff who run the ad-sales and ad-placements.

TLDR: The EU can't break up Google USA, but they can force Google Ireland Holdings to GTFO or change the way it offers services in the EU.

Java is Broken in Chrome 42. Totally. There is no way to run Java in the browser, at all. In any way.

Trying to run any Java app results in this: http://i.imgur.com/Imuxmay.png

There's a ticket open here:
https://code.google.com/p/chro...

"We are assured that rapid progress will soon bring self-driving electric cars,

Uh....

hypersonic airplanes,

Well...

individually tailored cancer cures,

cough-cough

and instant three-dimensional printing of hearts and kidneys.

You see...

We are even told it will pave the world's transition from fossil fuels to renewable energies,"

Aww screw it.

Could there have been worse examples of "LOL those crazy promises!"?

https://www.google.com/search?q=jason+levine+wife&tbm=isch

I get 500,000 results ...

A quick google search returns multiple ways to do this. It took me all of 20 seconds to find a one-liner that spit out a full list.

I get that, but why put it in a phone? Gorilla makes great glass, but you don't see them making phones just to show it off, ya know? Are they hoping Google will market this thing next to Cardboard?

I just don't get it.

NYC MTA developer resources link: http://web.mta.info/developers...

Relax, dude. Given the estimated US Population the first day of pre-orders doesn't even scratch half a percent of that. I'm more than willing to believe that there is ~ 0.313 - 0.314% of the American Population financially retarded enough to plop down on this first wave piece of shit. Hell, even when the numbers break over 1%, I'll still not be overly worried that the entirety, or even a small majority, of the American Population will throw themselves over the same cliff. Look at the number of people that were engrossed by Honey Boo Boo...between 2 and 3 million viewers. Just because stupid likes to carry a megaphone doesn't mean that they represent anything close to a majority.

That was my second thought (first was "finally!")
This is on my list of gene hacks, expanded visual range. Further, this seems to be a very good vehicle to refine the concept of genetic modification via viral administration. It could open up a whole host of other applications.. I for one would love to grow a new set of teeth every 15 years or so. Perhaps this will open the door for some of these ideas while allaying the fears of the masses wrt gene mods...
Or perhaps we will simply open the way for the Eugenics Wars...

How big is a 55 gallon drum? About the size of a bathtub? Asked Google, and it told me:

Many drums have a common nominal volume of 208 litres (55 US gal; 46 imp gal) and nominally measure just under 880 millimetres (35 in) tall with a diameter just under 610 millimetres (24 in) and differ by holding about thirteen gallons more than a barrel of crude oil.

178 gallons / 55 gallons/drum ~= 3.24 drums

How big is a bathtub?

The capacity of an average, US, standard run-of-the-mill built in bathtub filled up to the very bottom of the overflow, which is as full as you can get it is approx. 42 gallons

Let me clarify. All the standard size American Standard tubs are 42 gallons. I also went to the Kohler site and they are the same.

178 gallons / 42 gallons/bathtub ~= 4.24 bathtubs

automatically encrypt your data locally and upload it to multiple locations. These locations can be public locations as only your private key can decrypt the incremental (or full) backups.

Some backends:

• azure backend (Azure Blob Storage Service) Microsoft Azure SDK for Python - https://github.com/Azure/azure...
• boto backend (S3 Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Storage) boto version 2.0+ - http://github.com/boto/boto
• cfpyrax backend (Rackspace Cloud) and hubic backend (hubic.com) Rackspace CloudFiles Pyrax API - http://docs.rackspace.com/sdks...
• dpbx backend (Dropbox) Dropbox Python SDK - https://www.dropbox.com/develo...
• copy backend (Copy.com) python-urllib3 - https://github.com/shazow/urll...
• gdocs backend (Google Docs) Google Data APIs Python Client Library - http://code.google.com/p/gdata...
• gio backend (Gnome VFS API) PyGObject - http://live.gnome.org/PyGObjec...
• D-Bus (dbus)- http://www.freedesktop.org/wik...
• lftp backend (needed for ftp, ftps, fish [over ssh] - also supports sftp, webdav[s]) LFTP Client - http://lftp.yar.ru/
• mega backend (mega.co.nz) Python library for mega API - https://github.com/ckornacker/..., ubuntu ppa - ppa:ckornacker/backup
• OneDrive backend (Microsoft OneDrive) python-requests - http://python-requests.org/ python-requests-oauthlib - https://github.com/requests/re...
• ncftp backend (ftp, select via ncftp+ftp://)
• NcFTP - http://www.ncftp.com/
• Par2 Wrapper Backend par2cmdline - http://parchive.sourceforge.ne...
• rsync backend rsync client binary - http://rsync.samba.org/

Flow is another keyboard designed along similar lines, though it's optimized for slightly different criteria: fast text entry rather than low error rate. It takes a while to get used to, but you really can type a lot faster with it.

https://play.google.com/store/...

I used that app back in 2012, and it wasn't just-out-of-beta then, either. When I used it, it effectively solved all of its intended problems: common letter combinations were in close proximity, and there were fewer "word collisions" than with Swype ("or" vs "our" immediately coming to mind).

The problem I found was the fact that while Flow is more accurate, it took me significantly longer to type out a message because I wasn't used to the layout. I've spent over 20 years on a QWERTY keyboard, and even though Flow is more efficient, QWERTY is basically like breathing for me, so any statistically-better keyboard would still be slower because I'd be re-learning to type all over again. Even with errors, I'm personally still a Swype person at heart. I've even tried Swiftkey and Go, but even there what holds me back is knowing where the punctuation keys are. The only alternate keyboard I'll use is "Hacker's Keyboard" when I find myself in an SSH session, but other than that, Swype got me in early in the WinMo 6.5 days, and has never let go.

because you can't plate to fiberglass

Some places call it fully additive, and it is common enough to be even in textbooks.

"Electroless" plating is a chemical solution that doesn't use electroplating, this is for the gold finish. I don't know where you get the idea that is for the copper.

Maybe because nearly every board house that uses the process calls it that for copper, even the same place you just linked to.

Look, places are using this now, as in the last couple years, as I've seen it in person in China. You can look up examples easy enough on google. A lot of place use the semi-additive process too, but that doesn't mean that is the only way. You keep saying things are wrong, but nothing you've said has shown it is wrong that a photolithography method is used before electroplating (short of more esoteric methods), that it is wrong to say you can plate onto bare board, and it is referred to as electroless plating...

Bring it to the bootloader, and use fastboot from the SDK. You can flash disk images this way (which you can get here, if you're well and truly stuck)

Not sure why you're confused. The post clearly begins with "The whole point of the Nexus branded devices." Yes, this is true for Nexus branded hardware. It's Google's Android OS with no carrier bloatware. The updates come straight from Google. I own a Nexus 7 2013. I've updated many times - comes straight from Google.

Here's the link on Google's support site to confirm it: Click on the "Nexus Devices" to expand to see the below text.

https://support.google.com/nex...

Nexus 4, Nexus 5, Nexus 6, Nexus 7, Nexus 9, and Nexus 10 devices receive the latest version of Android directly from Google. Once an update is available, it can take up to two weeks for it to reach your device. Based on your carrier, it may take longer than two weeks after release to get an update.

Nexus devices may not receive the latest version of Android if they fall outside of the update window, which is usually around 18 months after a device has been released.

Wait... Google provides your cellphone directly?

Yes. I bought it from play.google.com. When I called for warranty repair, I called Google.

You know... because Google can't just go on to the Verizon/T-Mobile/AT&T/Sprint network and update everyone's phone. The provider provides the specific Android build.

No, they don't. You can get the android build for a nexus phone directly from Google's website. And for the Nexus 5 and Nexus 6, it's carrier agnostic; there's 1 ROM for domestic carriers. The last Nexus phone with branding was the Galaxy Nexus and everyone got updates quickly except those on Verizon. There's a reason the Nexus 5 supports AT&T, Sprint, and T-Mobile but not Verizon.

And that's why they can't update all the devices at once.

Apple has been updating their devices independently of the carriers for years. There's no reason Google has to do OTA through the carrier.

Android 5.1 has fucked up how the camera works on my Nexus 5. Any app I use that uses the camera will end up locking up pretty frequently, and this in turn prevents any camera-using app from accessing the camera until the phone is rebooted! The apps bitch about being unable to connect to the camera or some shit like that. I know I'm not alone, either. There's a bug report about the various camera problems than Android 5.1 has apparently caused. The sad part is that the devs from Google apparently don't have a fucking clue what's going on, and apparently can't reproduce this problem, although over 100 users have described running into very similar problems.

I regret upgrading to Android 5.1. My phone was working pretty well with Android 5.0.1. So I thought 5.1 would just be a relatively minor upgrade. No fucking way! Now I can't take more than a few pictures at a time without my goddamn phone needing to be rebooted. I wish Google spent less time and effort on eye candy and shit like that, and more effort on just making the fucking basic functionality of a modern smart phone work reliably.

You can install non-Store extensions in Developer Mode, but Google Chrome will automatically uninstall them when you close and reopen Google Chrome. There exists a workaround, but this workaround requires editing Group Policy, and editing Group Policy appears to require a Pro version of Windows. So you end up paying around $100 to Microsoft to have the ability to use a non-Store Chrome extension more than once.

Microsoft: We're not vulnerable to DDoS attacks

http://www.networkworld.com/co...

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"At Microsoft we have robust mechanisms to ensure we don't have unpatched servers. We have training for staff so they know how to be secure and be wise to social engineering. We have massively overbuilt our internet capacity, this protects us against DoS attacks. We won't notice until the data column gets to 2GB/s, and even then we won't sweat until it reaches 5GB/s. Even then we have edge protection to shun addresses that we suspect of being malicious."

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Why attackers can't take down Amazon.com:

http://money.cnn.com/2010/12/0...

PERTINENT QUOTE/EXCERPT:

"So Amazon (AMZN, Fortune 500) has spent years creating and refining an "elastic" infrastructure, called EC2, designed to automatically scale to handle giant traffic spikes... But Amazon's entire business model is built around handling intense traffic spikes. The holiday shopping season essentially is a month-long DDoS attack on Amazon's servers -- so the company has spent lavishly to fortify itself."

---

Investing in one of THESE is a big help:

DDoS Appliances:

http://www.google.com/search?s...

Because DDoS/DoS CAN be stopped (Microsoft & Amazon are setup PERFECTLY vs. it in fact, read on below on that note)!

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Use of CDN *might* help too - to distribute loads & "attack surface area" which helps also! Use of TCP vs. UDP (vs. DDoS by DNS Amplification attacks *may* help, but it doubles your overheads).

* There's also LOADS of settings that I know of (for Windows systems @ least) that help mitigate this as well & SHOULD be part of 'security-hardening' vs. such attacks also.

APK

P.S.=> There's plenty you CAN do vs. DDoS, but you've got to have the coin/dead-presidents to setup such a network (per AMAZON & MS above) ...

... apk

Exactly right - Intel's development fab is in Hillsboro, Oregon. They get the fab process working there, and then document the hell out of it and reproduce that billion+ dollar facility in their production fabs around the world - Costa Rica, Philippines, Malaysia, etc. Then they tear out the inside of the development fab and start over for the next generation. Periodically they need a bigger building footprint, so they build another dev fab next door and assign the previous dev fab to be a production fab at that node for products until they're done with it.

That would be what this campus does.

If you drag the map upwards a couple of times, you can see my house.

Exactly right - Intel's development fab is in Hillsboro, Oregon. They get the fab process working there, and then document the hell out of it and reproduce that billion+ dollar facility in their production fabs around the world - Costa Rica, Philippines, Malaysia, etc. Then they tear out the inside of the development fab and start over for the next generation. Periodically they need a bigger building footprint, so they build another dev fab next door and assign the previous dev fab to be a production fab at that node for products until they're done with it.

That would be what this campus does.

They are studying an old phenomenon, methane has been escaping from natural fractures in this area for years, see this interesting article on the Moving Mountain in the July 1933 Popular Mechanics, page 29. https://books.google.com/books... mountain durango&f=false

Incorrect in most jurisdictions:
https://www.google.com/webhp?s...

Some lawyers thrive on the fact that cracks in sidewalks can be excuses to sue landowners. Most sidewalk maintenance is the responsibility of the adjacent property owner, especially in residential areas. In most locations the city can come out and repair sidewalks, but only after repeated repair notices and it will generally be billed back to the property owners.

https://www.google.com/search?...

They exist in much better form factor. My watch annoys me enough that I take it off quite often, why would I want a bracelet I can't take off?

research how they layer themselves from defacto worker lawsuits with shell contractor companies... https://www.google.com/url?sa=...

"There is nothing more painful to me at this stage in my life than to walk down the street and hear footsteps and start thinking about robbery. Then look around and see somebody white and feel relieved.... After all we have been through. Just to think we can't walk down our own streets, how humiliating."
https://news.google.com/newspa...

But if you sync to the cloud, that is, transmit your incriminating video from you registered phone through a cell provider who has your credit card information to a storage provider who also has your credit card information, the cops can show up at your door, follow your car, and get "in your face" until they find something to hang you with.

http://www.freenas.org/downloa...
https://owncloud.org/install/
https://play.google.com/store/...
http://portforward.com/english...
http://www.startssl.com/

Or:
https://www.getsync.com/featur...
https://play.google.com/store/...

Either way, secured, real-time, SSL'd upload to your own server. No cloud vendors, and no credit cards.

But if you sync to the cloud, that is, transmit your incriminating video from you registered phone through a cell provider who has your credit card information to a storage provider who also has your credit card information, the cops can show up at your door, follow your car, and get "in your face" until they find something to hang you with.

http://www.freenas.org/downloa...
https://owncloud.org/install/
https://play.google.com/store/...
http://portforward.com/english...
http://www.startssl.com/

Or:
https://www.getsync.com/featur...
https://play.google.com/store/...

Either way, secured, real-time, SSL'd upload to your own server. No cloud vendors, and no credit cards.